[Comicsstudiessociety] Query: Scholarship on Alberto Breccia

[Charles Hatfield]

Hello, listers! I am seeking all the scholarly information I can find on
Argentinian comics master Alberto Breccia (1919-1993). Why? Partly out of
sheer admiration for what I've seen of Breccia's work (freshly stoked by
the recent Fantagraphics translation of Oesterheld and Breccia's *Mort
Cinder*), and partly to further my research on the roles of collage in
comics art (a topic I'll be discussing at CSS 2020).

So far, I've made ample use of the following excellent site curated by one Eric
DI POL:

http://www.alberto-breccia.net/

This site for some reason does not show up when I do Google searches. It's
very extensive and well illustrated. (BTW, I've reached out to Eric DI POL
for any recommendations he may have.)

I will send in a separate, follow-up message (feel free to ignore) combined
results from keyword searches for "Breccia" in the MLA International
Bibliography and in the Bonn Online Bibliography of Comics Research (
https://www.bobc.uni-bonn.de/), both conducted today.

Besides those search results, I have found a Google book preview for a
monograph by one Pablo Turnes titled *La excepción en la regla: La obra
historietística de Alberto Breccia (1962-1993)*, recently (2019) published
by Buenos Aires-based publisher Miño y Dávila (
http://www.minoydavila.com/la-excepcion-en-la-regla-la-obra-historietistica-de-alberto-breccia.html
).

Also, I note a major museum exhibition of Breccia's work in Bueno Aires
last year, at the Casa Nacional del Bicentenario:
https://casadelbicentenario.cultura.gob.ar/exhibicion/alberto-breccia-el-dibujo-mutante/.
I'm not sure if there was a catalog for that one specifically, but a
Facebook post by Paul Gravett last December alerted me to "Alberto Breccia:
Le Maitre Argentin Insoumis," a 128-page study from Editions PLG in France,
written by *Laura Caraballo*, who wrote her thesis on Breccia and curated
the Casa Nacional show. Before that, she also curated shows at the BD
Colomiers festival in 2018 and the Pulp Festival at Ferme du Buisson in
2019. Gravett also noted the release of a catalog in Italian for an
exhibition at the BilBOLBul festival in Bologna, "Il Signore delle
Immagini"; and a volume called "Breccia: Conversations avec Juan Sasturain"
compiling 460 pages of interviews, translated into French (Editions
Rackham). So, it appears there was a wave of centennial activity around
Breccia last year!

As far as accessing Breccia's own work, I've reached out to friends who
have been able to supply me with works beyond my own under-stocked shelves.
So, I now have access to Breccia's Lovecraft and Poe adaptations, plus
*Buscavidas*; *Nadie*; *Un Tal Daneri*; *Viajero de Gris*; and *Dracula*.
Plus of course the translated *Mort Cinder *(and somewhere, I think,
*Perramus*). I thought I had a copy of the *Che* biography he did with
Oesterheld and with his own son Enrique Breccia, but I can't find it.

Fantagraphics has embarked on its "Alberto Breccia Library," which fills me
with hope!: http://www.fantagraphics.com/series/the-alberto-breccia-library/.
(BTW, I am also reaching out to Robert Boyd, who edited or co-edited
publications at Fantagraphics in the 1990s that included translated work by
Breccia (*Perramus, Pictopia.*)

ANY SCHOLARLY LEADS IN ANY LANGUAGE WOULD BE VERY WELCOME. I do English
best (indeed I can hardly do anything else without dictionaries and Google
translate), but I'd like to hear about scholarship, criticism, biography,
etc. in any language!

*Thank you for whatever you can point me to!*

CH
Charles Hatfield

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